Esme - The Vampire Mommy

Esme würde es auch nicht kümmern, wenn du ein drittes Auge oder Schwimmhäute zwischen den Zehen hättest.

saturday schrieb:

Aber sagt mal,wie spricht man "Esme" eigentlich richtig aus??(ich glaub nämlich,dass ichs falsch sage )

To understand how Carlisle and Esme fell in love, you have to know Esme’s story.

So you’ve seen a little be of Esme’s life above–it wasn’t so great. Her marriage was all but arranged by her parents. She wasn’t in love with the man she married, though she was willing to give it a try. She wanted very much to fall in love with anyone, but she’d never met anyone that measured up to an encounter she had when she was sixteen. I’d better describe that a bit:

In 1911, Esme broke her leg falling out of a tree she’d climbed. Her family lived on a farm on the outskirts of Columbus. The local doctor was away, and it was after dark by the time they got her to the small hospital in Columbus. She was treated by a Dr. Cullen. It was his last month in town (he was already claiming to be 35). She never got over the experience.

Esme was the last of her friends to marry (they got married earlier back then). She was thinking of moving West to be a schoolteacher, but her father didn’t think it was respectable for a lady to live alone in the wilds. The son of a family friend, a man with good prospects, wanted to marry her, and her father pressured her to accept. She was indifferent towards Charles Evenson, but not opposed to him. She married him, and quickly found that this had been a bad decision. Charles’s public face was very different from his private face; he abused her. Her parents counseled her to be a good wife and keep quiet. When he was drafted, it was a huge relief to her. When he came back, it was terrifying.

The pregnancy was Esme’s catalyst to escape. She knew she wasn’t letting a child be brought into that home. She ran to a second cousin that lived in Milwaukee, and then moved further north when word of her whereabouts leaked to her parents. She blended in easily, pretending to be one of the many war widows. She taught school in a small community outside Ashland. When her baby died (lung infection) just a few days after he was born, she had nothing left. She had no idea that Carlisle was working in the little hospital in Ashland when she jumped off the cliff outside the town. Carlisle remembered her, of course, remembered her as the happy girl she had been at sixteen. He didn’t want her to die.

So you can imagine what she thought when she opened her eyes, in all that pain, and saw the face that she’d never forgotten in a decade.

Hopefully that gives you some insight into how quickly and easily Esme and Carlisle’s relationship formed. She was not really that upset to find out she was a vampire–she didn’t take it as in stride as Emmett, but she was just happy to be with the man/vampire of her dreams. She did always have that maternal ache, and, as the physically oldest of the Cullens, she fell into a mothering role.

"Ich habe fast so eine reine Weste wie Carlisle", sagte sie. "Ich bin besser als Esme. Tausendmal besser als Edward. Ich habe nie menschliches Blut gekostet." sagte sie stolz.

Opal schrieb:Was mich noch interessieren würde, in Eclipse hat Rosalie erwähnt, dass sie "besser als Esme" sei, was die Abstinenz der Cullens angeht.Aber ich kann mir kaum vorstellen, dass Carlisle Esme am Anfang ihres Vampirdaseins aus den Augen gelassen hat...
Was meint ihr dazu? So ein "Unfall" kann ja schon immer mal passieren, aber so wie wir Esme kennen, müsste sie doch ziemlich darunter gelitten haben, für den Tod eines oder mehrere Menschen verantwortlich zu sein.